The biopharma firm, which recently announced 200 new jobs to be spread through its Irish facilities, has cultivated a people-centric culture of innovation, high performance and progression.

With a focus on career progression and agility, MSD is supportive of its employees.

Mairead Rice, a process and chemical engineering graduate working with MSD at its Dublin facility, speaks highly of that culture of support.

“No question is too small,” says Rice, before pointing out that the company’s supportive culture allows her to envisage a pathway of progression, and see a future career with the company.

MSD also encourages a culture of global collaboration, ensuring that the various research facilities work together to produce the best results. Ger Carmody – associate VP of operations and site lead at the company’s Ballydine, Tipperary, facility – calls this the ‘one MSD’ approach.

Most of all, though, MSD strives to make a difference. This encompasses everything from ensuring environmental sustainability to carrying out work in the community.

Kirsty served as Silicon Republic’s Careers Editor from when she joined the company in 2015 up to August 2017. When she was younger, she had a dream where she started and won a fight with a T-Rex, so she’s pretty sure she kicked butt at this, too. Passions include eating all the cake, watching more TV than is healthy, and sassy comebacks. Her favourite thing on the internet is, and will likely remain, Pun Dog.